Three days of the 2013 draft brought us 35 new draft picks and scores of college free agents. I did my best to sort out the immediate aftermath Saturday evening and Sunday morning, and we'll start putting it context and looking for trends and hidden meaning Monday.

In a mere three more months, we'll see these guys -- along with their veteran counterparts -- in training camp. Imagine that.

Long's pedigree and history played a bit part in the choice, writes Rick Morrissey of the Chicago Sun-Times. Morrissey: "There’s no way in the world the Bears would have used their first-round pick on a guy with four college starts if his name had been Kyle Doe, Kyle Smith or Kyle Short."

The Detroit Lions drafted three players they coached at the Senior Bowl in January, notes Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press. The players: defensive end Ziggy Ansah, guard Larry Warford and tight end Michael Williams.

Ben Goessling of the St. Paul Pioneer Press: "The 2013 Vikings will have been molded through three offseasons focused on young players, two of them with Spielman as GM, and they will have the potential for both dynamic football and drastic lapses."